K-type star · orange

Mu Ind

Mu Ind is an orange in the constellation Indus 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,307 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 5.17K2III

Also catalogued as HR 8055 · HD 200365 · HIP 104085

4,307 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
93.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
93.58×
the Sun's light output
-0.08
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Indus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.